S vs Blush - What's the difference?
s | blush |
The nineteenth letter of the .
voiceless alveolar fricative
Symbol for second , an SI unit of measurement of time.
Image:Latin S.png, Capital and lowercase versions of S , in normal and italic type
Image:Fraktur letter S.png, Uppercase and lowercase S in Fraktur
Symbols for SI units
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An act of blushing.
(uncountable) A sort of makeup, frequently a powder, used to redden the cheeks. Confer rouge.
A color between pink and cream.
To redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.
* Milton
* 1912 , Stratemeyer Syndicate, Baseball Joe on the School Nine Chapter 1
To become red.
* Shakespeare
To suffuse with a blush; to redden; to make roseate.
* Shakespeare
To express or make known by blushing.
* Shakespeare
To have a warm and delicate colour, like some roses and other flowers.
* T. Gray
The collective noun for a group of boys.
As a letter s
is the letter s with a.As a noun blush is
an act of blushing or blush can be the collective noun for a group of boys.As a verb blush is
to redden in the face from shame, excitement or embarrassment.s
Translingual
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Symbol
(wikipedia) (mul-symbol)See also
(Latn-script) * * (esh) * (dze) * {{Letter , page=S , NATO=Sierra , Morse=ยทยทยท , Character=S , Braille=? }}blush
English
Etymology 1
(etyl) blyscan . Cognate with Old Norse .Noun
(es)Derived terms
* blush is off the rose * at first blushVerb
(es)- To the nuptial bower / I led her blushing like the morn.
- But Tommy was bashful, and the attention he had thus drawn upon himself made him blush . He was a timid lad and he shrank away now, evidently fearing Shell.
- The sun of heaven, methought, was loth to set, / But stayed, and made the western welkin blush .
- To blush and beautify the cheek again.
- I'll blush you thanks.
- Full many a flower is born to blush unseen.
Synonyms
* flushing * reddeningEtymology 2
1486 Dame Julia Barnes. The Book of St Albans.Noun
(es)- A blush of boys.